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News

Challenge’s New Championship

The Challenge Family announced today a new championship race in Slovakia, to take place on June 3, 2017. THECHAMPIONSHIP, is a to be a marquis half-distance event.

by Slowman, April 20, 2016

Cycling

Tri Saddle Roundup

Last week it was ISM and fi'zi:k, this week it's the rest: Cobb, Dash, Prologo, Bontrager, Specialized, Fabric, PRO. Who rides these saddles, how, and why?

News

Images from East Coast Shows

Here are images from Slowtwitch Road Shows in Connectictut, New Jersey and New York.

Cycling

Proper use of ISM and fi’zi:k

Twenty percent of 642 Slowtwitchers polled say they don't ride a noseless saddle, meaning 80 percent do. Should noseless have this much market share?

Industry

Mungo Park

Extreme tales of true adventure, surviving unfathomable hardship, written with keen insight, by those up to the challenge, begin with Mungo Park.

News

Shimano, VeloNews, BRAIN and embargoes

VeloNews broke a story Shimano didn't want broken. VeloNews claims Shimano threatened to pull its ads, and it published anyway. BRAIN opined in VeloNews' favor. But there's a little more to consider.

News

Heirarchy of Bad Acts

The Canadian age group star whose performances unraveled amid a forensic analysis of her races was the subject today of a long form article in the NY Times.

News

Hoka: Official Ironman Shoe

Being the official Ironman shoe did nothing for K Swiss. Will this designation be for Hoka One One what it wasn't for K-Swiss and Newton?

Industry

For want of a saddle

It's the annual saddle placement rant. You bought a new saddle. Great! But have you accounted for how you sit this saddle? Has it changed your position?

Industry

Soup Nazi Solution: TriRig

Rider needs a long and low geometry. It was the Soup Nazi answer for this guy: No bike for you! Then I remembered the TriRig Alpha series bars, and its online calculator.

News

Tri-Rig Rigs

Triathletes are a fickle bunch. The mood now is swinging toward the custom build of a bare frame. TriRig's bars and brakes are a favorite, and here are some examples.

News

Road Show at Bonzai Sports

Bonzai, in Washington DC, is one of those special Road Shows because when we did these 20 years ago, as the Quintana Roo Road Shows, Bonzai hosted these as well.

News

Self-Inflicted Wounds 2

I've miscalculated and chosen unwisely so many times, sabotaged my race in so many ways, I need a series of articles to chronicle all my self-inflicted wounds.